Former U.N. chief Kurt Waldheim, June 14

Former U.N. chief Kurt Waldheim, June 14 Kurt Waldheim, the erudite diplomat who served as U.N. secretary-general and Austria's president but left the world stage a pariah after his Nazi past was exposed, died of heart failure on June 14. He was 88. The case that defined Waldheim's legacy and memory of the longtime diplomat was built around a grainy black-and-white photograph that showed a young Waldheim -- tall, lean and uniformed -- as he fought for a Nazi army unit blamed for wartime atrocities in the Balkans.

Former U.N. chief Kurt Waldheim, June 14 Kurt Waldheim, the erudite diplomat who served as U.N. secretary-general and Austria's president but left the world stage a pariah after his Nazi past was exposed, died of heart failure on June 14. He was 88. The case that defined Waldheim's legacy and memory of the longtime diplomat was built around a grainy black-and-white photograph that showed a young Waldheim -- tall, lean and uniformed -- as he fought for a Nazi army unit blamed for wartime atrocities in the Balkans.

Former U.N. chief Kurt Waldheim, June 14 Kurt Waldheim, the erudite diplomat who served as U.N. secretary-general and Austria's president but left the world stage a pariah after his Nazi past was exposed, died of heart failure on June 14. He was 88. The case that defined Waldheim's legacy and memory of the longtime diplomat was built around a grainy black-and-white photograph that showed a young Waldheim -- tall, lean and uniformed -- as he fought for a Nazi army unit blamed for wartime atrocities in the Balkans.